Family

Is a Family Limited Partnership Right for You?
Family Finances

Is a Family Limited Partnership Right for You?

Do you think a Family Limited Partnership (FLP) is something that you don’t need to consider? Maybe…maybe not. FLPs—a type…

When a Loved One Doesn’t Have a Will
Death & Dying

When a Loved One Doesn’t Have a Will

A man walked into tax attorney Martin Shenkman’s office some years ago with a problem—he had inherited a large sum…

Couples’ Guide to Keeping Your Heart Healthy
Relationships

Couples’ Guide to Keeping Your Heart Healthy

Heart disease is a concern for both men and women, and how you work as a couple to ward it…

Considering a Continuing Care Retirement Community?
Family

Considering a Continuing Care Retirement Community?

Most of us want to remain in our homes for as long as possible—but sometimes a move to an assisted-living…

How to Handle Marriage and Money
Family Finances

How to Handle Marriage and Money

Sooner or later, money becomes a point of contention in every marriage. It’s inevitable that two people, no matter how…

Rover Rx
Pets

Rover Rx

What’s one of the strongest prescriptions for better health? According to decades of scientific research, it may be owning a…

Preventing Feuds Among Your Heirs
Family

Preventing Feuds Among Your Heirs

What do Robin Williams, Audrey Hepburn and Lady Diana all have in common? Their deaths triggered family inheritance feuds. Not…

What Critical Information Will Your Heirs Need?
Family

What Critical Information Will Your Heirs Need?

Your estate-planning documents won’t tell your heirs everything they need to know after you die or become incapacitated. You could…

What’s Your Plan?
Family

What’s Your Plan?

We’ve all heard the story. A loved one gets a scary diagnosis and ends up in the hospital, followed by…

Key to Healthy Aging – Friendship
Relationships

Key to Healthy Aging – Friendship

A good friend can be hard to find—especially in your older years. Friendships form frequently—and quite easily—in childhood, but they…

Make Empathy Your New Superpower
Relationships

Make Empathy Your New Superpower

If you rolled back Earth’s history by about 50,000 or 100,000 years and tried to gauge which creature would come…

How to Reconcile With Your Estranged Son or Daughter
Relationships

How to Reconcile With Your Estranged Son or Daughter

This holiday season won’t necessarily bring comfort and joy to everyone. Some parents are suffering from broken hearts that they…

Best Holiday Gifts for the Gardeners In Your Life
Family

Best Holiday Gifts for the Gardeners In Your Life

It is likely that the gardeners on your list already have the tools they consider essential. So what qualifies as…

Holiday Gifts That Give Comfort and Joy
Family

Holiday Gifts That Give Comfort and Joy

Gifts that provide luxury and pleasure are ideal choices this holiday season. Concerns about inflation have dissuaded many people from…

The Science of a Successful Marriage
Relationships

The Science of a Successful Marriage

Most of us have an intuitive understanding of what makes for a happy marriage —never go to bed angry, make…